Lavender Kay

You guys! Today is moving day! It is so crazy that this day is finally here! The moving truck comes this afternoon, and I am spending the morning finishing all the little last minute things so we are ready to go! Today will be a race to the finish because we will pack up the car, oversee the movers, go to Jonathan’s graduation and then head to Kennewick! We aren’t going to get in until super later, but we figured that was better than sleeping on the floor!

I am packing up my computer today so I am going to have to take a little vacation from blogging until we make it to Milwaukee. But I will be back, I promise! And, I’ll update you on all the crazy adventures we had along the way!

Have a wonderful day!

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top left: pretty flowers / top right: last day of school / bottom left: downtown Corvallis at the farmers market / bottom right: the calm before the packing storm

Life is soo crazy for us right now!  You should see our apartment, it is full of boxes!  The movers come tomorrow so we need to have everything ready by tonight!  It’s happening!

As Jonathan and I prepare to move to our new city and into our new home, I can’t help but start to make plans for how I want to decorate our new space.  My mind is going crazy with ideas for new design projects and color combinations.  Just today I got a call from our new landlord letting us know they are going to be installing new granite counter tops in our kitchen!  I am SO excited!

So today I thought I would share a new color palette with you in honor of our new house.  I love this picture of blogger, Emily Henderson’s living room.  The brown leather chairs have the perfect combination of modern and cottage chic.  I also love how the room is mostly white with subtle pops of color like the beautiful pink flowers or the gold vases.  And, did you see that amazing blue color painted in the fireplace!  Stunning!

I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday!

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PS. You can view past color palettes by clicking the banner to the right!

Good morning friends!  How was your weekend?  We packed our lives away, but it feels good to now have a lot of the packing done!  This is our last week in Corvallis (5 days to be exact) so we are racing around to get everything done in time!  I am getting so excited for our big move!

Today, as promised, I have our Strawberry-lime daiquiri recipe for you that I think you will love!

Strawberry-Lime Daiquiri Recipe:

Ingredients: ice, 1 pint of strawberries, juice from half a lime, 1/4 to 1/2 cup of sugar, 3 leaves of basil, and white rum

Instructions: Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend them up.  If you aren’t drinking them right away, put the mixture in the freezer until you serve them.  *The ingredient measurements are a rough estimate as it will depend on how you want the daiquiris to taste.  Makes 2 to 4 drinks.

This drink is perfect for a summer evening on the patio!  Enjoy!

Happy Friday!  Another week come and gone!  Do you have any fun plans for the weekend?  This should be a pretty busy weekend for us since it is our last weekend in Corvallis!  Can you believe it?!  We plan to pack up most of our stuff over the weekend, and get everything ready for our big move to Milwaukee!  We are also planning to go strawberry picking so that we have lots of yummy strawberries to make strawberry-lime daiquiris!  Stay tuned for the recipe next week!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!  Here are some fun links from around the internet!

I want to make this beautiful table cloth!

Yummy popsicles

This nursery is dreamy!

Cute sun dress by Madewell

In case you missed it:

Here is the fun branding project I have been working on!

New June desktop calendar

Ps. The above picture is of the pretty peonies flowers Jonathan brought home last week!

It is time to say farewell to my graphic design program.  Yesterday was my last day of school, and I am so grateful for my time there.  It is funny how when we moved to Oregon I had no idea what this year would hold for me!  Then came along the graphic design program, and totally changed everything!  I owe a lot to the program, and I will miss all the people I met while I was there.

This has been one wild year!  I am excited for the next exciting chapter of our life, but I am still feeling sentimental about this all coming to a close.  Although we never really felt settled in Corvallis, it was still our home for a year, and there are things I am going to miss.  Jonathan and I both agreed, one thing we are definitely going to miss is being so close to the Oregon Coast!  We have made so many wonderful memories there!  But lucky for me, I will be trading the Oregon Coast for the Great Lakes, so I can’t complain too much!  There are also small things I will miss like my favorite running trail and the market by our apartment.

As I am starting to say goodbye to people and places here, I am also reminded of all the new people and places I will discover in Milwaukee.  And, this is a thought I must hold onto as I prepare for our next transition.  Although it is sad to say goodbye, it is also exciting to welcome the new things this next year will bring.  So cheers to this crazy year, and cheers to new adventures!

Today I have designed a fun June desktop calendar for you guys!  I am sorry it is a few days late, but better late than never right?!  Lately I have been inspired by whimsical drawings and spring colors.  Enjoy!

To download, just click on the image and once the large image appears in a new window, right click and choose “set as desktop background.”

Good morning!  Thank you again for finding your way over to my new website!  I am so excited to move forward with Lavender Kay, and I appreciate you all being a part of it!  Today I wanted to post some instagrams from last weekend.  It has always been a dream of Jonathan’s to go to the Prefontaine Classic track meet in Eugene, Oregon and last weekend we got to go!  It was so much fun!  We got to see a lot Olympic medalists, and our personal favorite, Nick Symmonds!  Here are a few pictures from our trip!

top left: Jonathan and I at Pre! / top right: the 800m race with Nick Symmonds / bottom left: our favorite market in Corvallis – we had donuts outside before we left for Eugene / bottom right: outside Hayward Stadium before the race

Hi friends!  Thank you for finding your way over to my new blog design!  To re-subscribe you can just type your name into the little icon to the right, and you should be all signed up!

Today I am SO excited to share with you a branding project that I have been working on for awhile!  I got the opportunity to design the logo and business cards for an amazing non-profit company called Desert Serendipity.  The owner refinishes and sells vintage furniture, and she has made some amazing pieces!  This company is even more amazing because the proceeds go to Rehema/Instep Children’s Home in Kenya.  Now that is a company I want to buy my furniture from!

This was a really fun project for me, and I am so happy with the final product!  To start, we wanted to tie together modern and vintage elements to the brand.  For the logo I knew I wanted a design that would translate well onto a custom stamp so that it could be used on a diverse group of marketing materials.  Also, we wanted to have an illustrated element on the logo so that it could be used as a way to recognize the brand.  I love how the modern furniture turned out along with the splashes of paint behind them.

For business cards, we decided to go with a vintage theme and design them as old library cards.  Each business card slides into a cute kraft paper envelope, and then the logo is stamped onto the front of each envelope.  Here are a few pictures of the finished product.

 We had a custom stamp made for the logo, and we thought it would be fun to have the option to use black or white ink.

This project was a blast to work on, and I am so happy with how it all turned out!  Also, thank you again for making your way over to my new site!  I hope you like it!

Hello!  Today is a big day!  I finally get to check off a major goal from my January goal list!  I am so excited to announce to you all that I have finally chosen a new name for my blog! And, along with my new name I have created and designed a new website/blog.  This is something I have wanted to do for a long time but was intimidated by the idea of setting up a new URL and committing to a more permanent name.  But, I have finally taken the plunge so I present to you, lavenderkay.com!

I chose the name, Lavender Kay, because Kay is a very special name to me as it was my mother’s middle name, and I just like lavender.  This project has been a labor of love, and I have spent a lot of time getting it ready.  I am still working out all the bugs, and plan to make many more changes as time goes on, but I couldn’t wait any longer to show you my new site!

I really wanted to make it so that you didn’t have to re-subscribe to the new site, but I haven’t gotten that part figured out so if you don’t mind, I would love it if you re-subscribed to my blog at lavenderkay.com.  I would be sooo sad to loose any of you as followers, and would be honored if you just took 30 seconds to re-subscribe!  I also wanted to say thank you to you all for following along with me on the exciting journey!  I have loved reading your comments, and can’t wait to share so much more on my new site!

To celebrate my new blog, I have put together a new post on lavender kay that I have been wanting to share with you for a long time.  I worked on a really fun branding project that I would love for you to check out so stay tuned!